Stifled...

Sunday, September 25, 2005

You Thought I Was...

I recently found out that some people in my platoon has very interesting misconceptions of me. I tend to speak a lot of hokkien in camp because I think that's how the army is, although OCS is filled with all sorts of smarties. I speak hokkien so much that people call me "hokkien soldier" because that's what our PCs always tell us. They always say that the troops in units are mostly lowly educated guys who speak more hokkien than anything else. If I'm gonna become a PC in a unit, I think I'll make quite a good one because at least communication isn't a barrier. Haha.

Anyway, because I speak hokkien and act like a bad-ass in camp, people form strange ideas of me. 1 particular guy asked me how old I was one day, and I said 19, the same age as him. He looked at me and asked, "How can that be? I thought polytechnic students in our batch of officer cadets should be older than us?"

What the fuck? He thought that I was from polytechnic. So you mean polytechnic students speak hokkien and act like a jackass? A JC guy can't speak hokkien? What the hell... Anyway, I told him I was from a JC and he looked fucking stunned.

Next, there was this JC visit where ACJC and IJC sent students over to OCS for a tour. I was in charge of introducing one of the weapons we have to those kids. 1 platoon mate was sitting near me when I started introducing the weapon to the kids, captivating them with my speech. After that, the students came over to me and had a feel of my weapon. I mean my weapon as in the weapon I was in charge of, not MY weapon. Damn...

Anyway, after they left, my platoon mate came up to me and told me this, "I've never heard you speak perfect English, I've never known that you are capable of that." What the fuck are you talking about? Just because I speak hokkien and mandarin more doesn't mean I can't speak English. What made you think that way? Is it my fluent hokkien? I've got a B3 for my GP and I was a class debater in secondary school, for fuck's sake.

So you see, people have strange ideas of what kinda person I am. Well, I guess I need to cut down on my hokkien or the next thing they can come up with is that I'm a triad member. Damn...

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